Intel Core i5-2430M vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600

Core i5-2430M vs Core 2 Quad Q6600 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core 2 Quad Q6600 beats the Core i5-2430M in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2430M in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core 2 Quad Q6600 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-2430M. Indeed, the Core 2 Quad Q6600 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i5-2430M. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core 2 Quad Q6600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-2430M. A Core i5-2430M CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Quad Q6600 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-2430M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.